Shannon Genealogy

Book excerpt: Nathaniel Shannon was born in 1655 at Londonderry, Ulster Province, Ireland. He immigrated to America in 1687 and settled at Boston. He and his wife, Elizabeth, had three sons, 1689-1698. He died in 1723 at Boston. His son, Nathaniel (1689-ca. 1723), married Abigail Vaughan, daughter of Major William and Margaret Cutts Vaughan, at Postsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1714. They had two sons, 1715/6-1717. According to family tradition, he went to the West Indies in 1720, and remained there on business until his death, shortly before his father's death. Abigail Shannon died at Portsmouth in 1762. Descendants lived in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and elsewhere.